Health auctioned next month to 47 million now has plenty masks

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Health auctioned next month to 47 million now has plenty masks A. E. - Vitoria - 24/12/2010
The Department of Health made public yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Basque Country's call for the auction of 47 million masks of 60 that bought the previous advice to avoid infection with influenza A. The purchase was completed on April 30, 2009, nine days before the then director, Gabriel Inclán, to come out of the Government by the arrival of the Socialists to Ajuria Enea. The auction will be held on 20 January.
According to public information, the starting price is set at 54,000 euros plus VAT. The 60 million masks have cost 2.55 million euros Health. The auction will be held in the open and will be the sole criterion for assessing the price bids offered by the game huge.
The masks have not been divided by lot, so that you can only have a buyer for the entire game. Health has already inquired into two companies that might be interested. Before that several NGOs sought to use the masks. Interested parties may submit their bids until January 14 next.
The specification states that it is high-risk surgical masks green polypropylene, with three layers of nonwovens. The auction is the way in which Health has chosen to try to minimize the economic cost was the purchase -28 pieces by Basque citizens, but also to avoid the costs it is assuming million productod store a flag whose rent has cost over 9,000 euros per month. If a buyer is not achieved, the department raises other options, such as health-destroying this material is that which is consumed in 30 or 40 years, but expires in 2014.